EP0862500A1 - Improved fluid mixing nozzle and method - Google Patents
Improved fluid mixing nozzle and methodInfo
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- EP0862500A1 EP0862500A1 EP96929876A EP96929876A EP0862500A1 EP 0862500 A1 EP0862500 A1 EP 0862500A1 EP 96929876 A EP96929876 A EP 96929876A EP 96929876 A EP96929876 A EP 96929876A EP 0862500 A1 EP0862500 A1 EP 0862500A1
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- nozzle
- protrusion
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
- B01F25/20—Jet mixers, i.e. mixers using high-speed fluid streams
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
- B01F25/30—Injector mixers
- B01F25/31—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows
- B01F25/312—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows with Venturi elements; Details thereof
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
- B01F25/30—Injector mixers
- B01F25/31—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows
- B01F25/312—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows with Venturi elements; Details thereof
- B01F25/3124—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows with Venturi elements; Details thereof characterised by the place of introduction of the main flow
- B01F25/31243—Eductor or eductor-type venturi, i.e. the main flow being injected through the venturi with high speed in the form of a jet
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
- B01F25/30—Injector mixers
- B01F25/31—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows
- B01F25/312—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows with Venturi elements; Details thereof
- B01F25/3125—Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows with Venturi elements; Details thereof characteristics of the Venturi parts
- B01F25/31252—Nozzles
- B01F25/312522—Profiled, grooved, ribbed nozzle, or being provided with baffles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
- B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
- B05B7/24—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas with means, e.g. a container, for supplying liquid or other fluent material to a discharge device
- B05B7/26—Apparatus in which liquids or other fluent materials from different sources are brought together before entering the discharge device
- B05B7/28—Apparatus in which liquids or other fluent materials from different sources are brought together before entering the discharge device in which one liquid or other fluent material is fed or drawn through an orifice into a stream of a carrying fluid
- B05B7/30—Apparatus in which liquids or other fluent materials from different sources are brought together before entering the discharge device in which one liquid or other fluent material is fed or drawn through an orifice into a stream of a carrying fluid the first liquid or other fluent material being fed by gravity, or sucked into the carrying fluid
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
- B01F2025/91—Direction of flow or arrangement of feed and discharge openings
- B01F2025/913—Vortex flow, i.e. flow spiraling in a tangential direction and moving in an axial direction
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
- B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
- B01F2025/91—Direction of flow or arrangement of feed and discharge openings
- B01F2025/916—Turbulent flow, i.e. every point of the flow moves in a random direction and intermixes
Definitions
- This invention relates to a nozzle and method. More specifically, it is directed to an improved fluid mixing nozzle that creates chaotic turbulent flow and induces vortices to form in the flow, thereby, transferring energy and velocity from the flow core to the boundary.
- Efficient mixing of fluids is crucial for many devices and processes.
- eductors, or jet pumps accomplish mixing by contacting an accelerated jet of one fluid with a relatively stationary second fluid.
- Flow instabilities at the first fluid's boundary layer as well as the reduced pressure within the accelerated fluid causes entrainment of the second fluid.
- a second method of increasing the mixing effect includes pulsating the velocity or pressure of the first fluid. However, pulsating the velocity consumes external energy and, therefore, is often inefficient .
- a third method of enhancing the mixing effect is vortex induction in the jet flow (see U.S. Patent Number 4,519,423 that issued to Ho et al. on May 28, 1985) . The swirling vortex promotes both bulk mixing and molecular dispersion.
- Eductors often include a diffuser positioned downstream of the nozzle for pressure recovery. Without a diffuser, the flow energy dissipates rapidly.
- Typical diffusers have an inlet cross sectional area that is less than the outlet cross sectional area.
- a diffuser is a flow passage device for reducing the velocity and increasing the static pressure of a fluid. Therefore, the pressure gradient of the fluid opposes the flow. As a consequence, if the walls of the diffuser are too steep, the boundary layer may decelerate and thicken causing boundary layer separation. The separation wherein the flow velocity of the fluid cannot overcome the back pressure, may result in a reverse flow of fluid near the diffuser wall. Diffuser wall separation causes inefficient pressure recovery and inefficient velocity reduction.
- One method of preventing diffuser wall separation includes using relatively long diffusers with a small taper angle. However, space or weight limitations may prevent the use of a long diffuser.
- a second method to prevent diffuser wall separation is to energize the boundary layer by maintaining the energy near the diffuser wall.
- Techniques of energizing the boundary wall include active methods and passive methods.
- An example of an active method is injection of additional fluid near the diffuser wall where stall is likely to occur.
- passive methods involve transferring energy from the flow core, which has a relatively higher velocity than the boundary portions, to the boundary portions.
- the flow at any particular point in the diffuser has a kinetic energy flux profile.
- the axial portion has a greater velocity than the boundary portion.
- the flux profile is peaked.
- a uniform exit flow profile provides greater pressure recovery; and the maximum pressure recovery is achieved with a peaked inlet profile and a uniform outlet profile. Consequently, transferring energy and velocity from the flow core to boundary portions results in greater pressure recovery.
- An effective manner of accomplishing the passive transfer of energy to the boundary portions includes creating vortices within the flow as shown in U.S. Patent Number 4,971,768 that issued to Ealba et al. on November 20, 1990, U.S. Patent Number 4,957,242 that issued to Schadow on September 18, 1990, and Ho et al.
- Ealba et al. discloses vortex creation using a thin convoluted wall member positioned downstream of the nozzle;
- Schadow shows vortex creation using a nozzle having an elongated outlet that produces a swirling of the exiting fluid;
- Ho et al. reveals vortex creation using a noncircular outlet having unequal major and minor axes, with the major axis to minor axis ratio less than five.
- nozzles and mixing devices may be helpful in mixing, enhanced entrainment of a secondary fluid, and pressure recovery, they can be improved to provide greater mixing efficiency, greater pressure recovery, higher entrainment vacuum, and to allow for the use of relatively shorter diffusers, thereby, reducing cost and energy consumption. None of the references show creation of a chaotic turbulence and wide scale vortex induction to improve mixing and pressure recovery.
- the objectives of this invention are to provide, inter alia, an improved fluid mixing nozzle that:
- my invention is an improved
- the nozzle has a nozzle body with a cavity extending therethrough.
- the cavity defines an inlet orifice in the inlet end of the nozzle and an outlet orifice in the outlet end of the orifice.
- the cross sectional area of the inlet orifice is greater than the cross sectional area of the outlet orifice.
- the outlet orifice cross sectional shape has a substantially circular central portion and at least one protrusion extending from the perimeter of the central portion.
- the cross sectional shape includes a plurality of protrusions extending from the central portion.
- FIG. 1 is an isometric view of the fluid mixing nozzle.
- FIG. 2 is an outlet end elevational view of the nozzle, shown in FIG. 1, that has eight protuberances extending from the perimeter of the central portion of the outlet orifice cross sectional shape.
- the protuberances have similar shapes and cross sectional areas, a rounded protrusion apogee end, and a radial dimension to tangential dimension ratio of approximately 1:1.
- FIG. 3 is an outlet end elevational view of a nozzle that has six protuberances extending from the perimeter of the central portion of the outlet orifice cross sectional shape.
- FIG. 4 is an outlet end elevational view of a nozzle that has eight protuberances extending from the perimeter of the central portion of the outlet orifice cross sectional shape.
- the radial dimension to tangential dimension ratios alternate between a ratio of approximately 1:1 and a ratio of approximately 2:1.
- FIG. 5 is a partial cross sectional isometric view of an eductor that includes the nozzle.
- FIG. 6 is a partial cross sectional isometric view of the nozzle and diffuser of FIG 5.
- FIG. 7 is a plot of the inlet pressure to the nozzle, measured in psig, versus the vacuum pressure of the second fluid being drawn into the eductor, measured in inches of mercury, and illustrates the results of a comparative test in which a variety of nozzle outlet orifice configurations were functionally placed in an eductor having a diffuser.
- FIG. 7A is an outlet end elevational view of a nozzle that has a circular outlet.
- FIG. 7B is an outlet end elevational view of a nozzle that has a double elliptical outlet.
- FIG. 7C is an outlet end elevational view of a nozzle that has an elliptical outlet.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic of the test apparatus used for comparative testing of the nozzle.
- the nozzle 10 comprises a nozzle body 20 an inlet orifice 30, an outlet orifice 40, and a cavity 26 connecting the inlet orifice 30 and outlet orifice 40.
- the outlet orifice 30 is constructed to create a chaotic turbulent, accelerated flow therefrom.
- the nozzle body 20 has a nozzle inlet end 22 and a nozzle outlet end 24.
- the nozzle body 20 is cylindrical to conform to standard pipe cavities.
- the cavity 26 extends through the nozzle body 20 from the nozzle inlet end 22 to the nozzle outlet end 24.
- the cavity 26 preferably extends axially therethrough.
- the cavity 26 defines a nozzle inlet orifice 30 that preferably has a circular cross sectional shape.
- the cavity 26 defines a nozzle outlet orifice 40.
- the nozzle inlet orifice 30 has a greater cross sectional area than the nozzle outlet orifice 40.
- the cavity 26 may have parallel walls, in the preferred embodiment, the cavity 26 is tapered to provide for a smooth transition between the nozzle inlet orifice 30 and the nozzle outlet orifice 40.
- the angle of convergence of the preferred taper is between 12 degrees and 45 degrees with optimum performance resulting from an angle of convergence between 30 degrees and 38 degrees .
- the taper angle may provide for convergence of the flows from each of the protrusions 50, described below, at a predetermined point downstream of the nozzle outlet orifice 40.
- constructing the nozzle with a particular taper angle results in convergence, or intersection, of the flow at a predetermined point downstream of the nozzle 10. Therefore, if the taper angles for each of the protrusions 50 are equal, the flows from each of the protrusions 50 will converge at the same point.
- the taper angles of each of the protrusions 50 can be varied to cause the flows from each of the protrusions 50 to intersect the core at different points downstream of the nozzle 10.
- the flows can be made to converge or not converge; or the nozzle 10 taper angle construction may permit convergence of some of the flows at one predetermined point and convergence of other flows at a separate predetermined point.
- An unlimited amount of variations and iterations of possible flow convergence and nonconvergence is possible and anticipated.
- Other protrusion 50 configurations can create other patterns of chaotic turbulence such as by alternating the radial sequence of the protrusions 50 in aspect ratios and degree of taper angle.
- the nozzle outlet orifice 40 cross sectional shape has a substantially circular central portion 42 and at least one protrusion 50 extending from the perimeter 44 of the central portion 42.
- Each protrusion 50 has a length, or radial dimension, measured in a radial direction of said central portion, and a width, or tangential dimension, measured in a direction perpendicular to said radial dimension.
- the end of each protrusion 50 that is proximal the central portion 42, the protrusion junction end 56, is open to the central portion 42 as shown in the figures.
- the end of each protrusion 50 that is distal the central portion 42 and the protrusion junction end 56 is the protrusion apogee end 58.
- the protrusion apogee end 58 is preferably either rounded, as shown in figures 1, 2, and 4, or flat, as shown in figure 3.
- Each protrusion 50 commonly has linear opposing sides 60 that extend from the protrusion junction end 56 to the protrusion apogee end 58.
- the sides 60 are either parallel or converge at a predetermined angle from a maximum width at the protrusion junction end 56 to a minimum width at the protrusion apogee end 58.
- the nozzle outlet orifice 40 cross sectional shape has a plurality of protrusions 50. These protrusions 50 are generally equally spaced about the perimeter 44 of the central portion 42, but may alternatively be unequally spaced.
- Figures 1, 2, and 4 show a nozzle outlet orifice 40 cross sectional shape that has eight equally spaced protrusions 50.
- Figure 3 shows a nozzle outlet orifice 40 cross sectional shape that has six equally spaced protrusions 50.
- each protrusion 50 is relatively smaller than the central portion 42.
- the dimensions and shape of each protrusion may take virtually any form.
- the preferred embodiments generally have a symmetrical configuration.
- the nozzle outlet orifice 40 cross sectional shape shown in figures 1 through 3 includes protrusions wherein the radial dimension and the tangential dimension of each protrusion 50 are substantially equal and the protrusions 50 have similar cross sectional shapes.
- the protrusions 50 shown in these figures have a ratio of the radial dimension to the tangential dimension of approximately 1:1.
- the nozzle outlet orifice 40 cross sectional shape shown in figure 4 also includes protrusions that have generally a symmetrical configuration.
- the protrusions 50 have a ratio of the radial dimension to the tangential dimension that alternates between a ratio of approximately 1:1 and a ratio of approximately 2:1 for adjacent protrusions.
- Radial dimension to tangential dimension ratios as shown in the figures, have been tested in the range of from 1:1 to 2:1 and have been shown beneficial. Although these ratios are disclosed in the drawings for reference purposes, the present invention encompasses ratios and configurations of all types capable of obtaining the objectives set forth above.
- other protrusion 50 configurations can create other patterns of chaotic turbulence such as by alternating the radial sequence of the protrusions 50 in aspect ratios and degree of taper angle.
- a method of improved mixing comprises the steps of providing a nozzle 10, similar to the one described above, that is capable of creating a chaotic
- the mixing of the accelerated first fluid with the second fluid takes place immediately downstream of the nozzle 10 in the mixing area 80.
- the second fluid may be stationary relative to the accelerated first fluid or may flow into the contact with the first fluid by injection or other means.
- the mixed fluid may flow into a containment structure such as a diffuser 70 or an open container.
- Eductors 68 generally include a diffuser 70 for pressure recovery.
- the diffuser 70 has a diffuser inlet end 72 that has a smaller cross sectional area than the diffuser outlet end 74 and a smooth transitional taper.
- FIG. 10 illustrates the results of a comparative test in which a variety of nozzle outlet orifice configurations were functionally placed in an eductor 68 having a diffuser.
- the test apparatus shown schematically in figure 8, included a
- centrifugal pump 100 in flow communication with the inlet chamber 102 of the eductor 68. From the inlet chamber 102, the fluid passed through the nozzle to the mixing area 80, through a diffuser 70, and into a relatively large tank 104.
- a vacuum pressure gage 106 in the second fluid supply inlet 110 provided measurement of the entrainment vacuum of the eductor 68. Greater entrainment vacuum results in greater entrainment of second fluid into the eductor 68.
- a second pressure gage 108 measured the pressure in the inlet chamber of the eductor 68 which is the pressure supplied to the eductor 68. The only portion of the eductor 68 that was changed in each test was the nozzle.
- Each of the tested nozzles had the same outlet orifice cross sectional area.
- Figure 7 plots the inlet pressure to the nozzle, measured in psig, versus the vacuum pressure applied to the second fluid supply inlet 110 of the eductor 68, measured in inches of mercury.
- the circular outlet, the double ellipse outlet, the single ellipse outlet, and the present invention outlet are indicated by lines A, B, C, and D
- the vacuum obtained with the nozzle 10 of the present invention is significantly greater than that of the other nozzle outlet configurations. Because of the positive correlation between higher vacuum and entrainment, this greater vacuum of the secondary fluid indicates that the eductor 68 is capable of mixing greater amounts of the second fluid with the first fluid and of achieving greater entrainment. During the tests, the pressure recovery of the nozzle 10 of the present invention was visually observed as greater than that of the other nozzle configurations.
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